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<\/p>\nAN EXPERT says Putin is sending deadly beauties to spy on Britain and the US – after they attend "seduction schools".<\/p>\n
Former spook Philip Ingram said that the Kremlin's "madames" are running networks of glam spies in UK suburbs.<\/p>\n
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Philip told The Sun: "The Russians have got a school for it, where they put people\u00a0through for a degree of training.<\/p>\n
"They have got madames that will run networks across different cities in Europe.<\/p>\n
"They will teach them the art of seduction as part of their\u00a0wider intelligence training,<\/p>\n
He added: "They will always assess people to see whether they would be willing to go that little bit more for Mother Russia. <\/p>\n
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"The job is to go round high powered parties and events and get into people's inner circles. <\/p>\n
"It is a very old Cold War tactic. Sidle up to middle aged men or women compromise people – it's also a tactic used by the Chinese.<\/p>\n
"The Russians will use any mechanisms that they possibly\u00a0can to gain Kompromat on individuals.<\/p>\n
"They have networks of people in London and cities across the UK."<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Philip's claims about Moscow's "seduction schools" come after cops unravelled an alleged Russian spy ring said to be working in suburban west London and the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth. <\/p>\n Cops have not said whether any of the ring's alleged members are believed to have attended a "seduction school".<\/p>\n The latest alleged spy to be snared is "timid" 29-year-old Vanya Gaberova – a glamorous eyelash extension expert working in a suburban beauty parlour in Acton, west London.<\/p>\n She is the youngest member of an alleged spy ring made up of\u00a0Bulgarian\u00a0nationals.<\/p>\n Locals have told how Vanya was an unlikely candidate to spy for the Kremlin.<\/p>\n The manager of Portuguese restaurant Villamoura – opposite Gaberova's shop Pretty Woman – said: "She was very timid, discreet, she came across as normal.<\/p>\n "I wouldn\u2019t have suspected her of being a spy but if she was, she was a good one. I knew her for two or three years and I never expected that."<\/p>\n He revealed Gaberova would visit the restaurant for coffees and teas as well as "cheese and chorizo sandwiches".<\/p>\n The brunette is said to have lived a quiet life in west\u00a0London\u00a0with her partner, an unnamed decorator and "big guy".<\/p>\n Vanya won prizes at the Grand Balkan Lash and Brow Championship in 2019 for her classic lashes and 2\/3D volume.<\/p>\n Photos posted on social media show her\u00a0posing with a trophy and a certificate.<\/p>\n One trophy was displayed at her West London beauty salon, which she ran before her arrest in February.<\/p>\n She was rounded up with three men and another woman following a joint Met Police and MI5 investigation.<\/p>\n Gaberova and boyfriend Ivan Stoyanov, of Greenford,\u00a0West London, were bailed.<\/p>\n Vanya was rounded up with three men and another woman following a joint Met Police and MI5 investigation.<\/p>\n A couple, Bizer Dzhambazov, 41, and Katrin Ivanova, 31, of Harrow, North West London, were\u00a0initially charged\u00a0along with Orlin Roussev, 45, of Great Yarmouth,\u00a0Norfolk, with possession of false documents.<\/p>\n Glam Katrin is\u00a0understood to have moved to\u00a0Harrow in north west London with Bizer, 41, more than 10 years ago.<\/p>\n But they were snatched by anti-terror\u00a0cops\u00a0in February after their cover was blown – and have been in custody ever since.<\/p>\n A woman living opposite the couple said they put up \u201cchunky\u201d security cameras on the front of their\u00a0home.<\/p>\n She said: "We were concerned they were pointing at our house but of course now we suspect it was pointing at the\u00a0road.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThey used to have a van come quite late at night, around midnight to 1am, and they would load it up.<\/p>\n "We thought they were just doing deliveries. We never spoke to them and they never spoke to us."<\/p>\n The neighbour added that a number of people used to come in and out of the property while the couple lived there.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bulgarian\u00a0nationals Ivanova and Dzhambazov have been charged with holding UK, Bulgarian, French, Italian, Spanish, Croatian, Slovenian, Greek and Czech passports with "improper intention".<\/p>\n They were\u00a0arrested under the Official Secrets Act alongside fellow Bulgarian Orlin Roussev, 45.<\/p>\n All three are set to go on trial at the Old Bailey in\u00a0London\u00a0in January.<\/p>\n They spent the last decade in the UK building up seemingly normal lives – hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n Former neighbours of the couple said they brought round pies and cakes as gifts.<\/p>\n Dzhambazov has reportedly worked as a\u00a0hospital\u00a0driver, while Ivanova worked as a private sector laboratory assistant.\u00a0<\/p>\n The pair also ran a Bulgarian community organisation, which introduces Bulgarians into the "culture and norms of British society".<\/p>\n The couple are also understood to have worked for electoral commissions in London, which help Bulgarian nationals living outside the country to vote in its elections.<\/p>\n Redhead model Anna Chapman, 36, was arrested in the US as part of the top secret Illegals Program – a network of Russian sleeper agents spying on the FBI.<\/p>\n Dubbed Russia's "most glamorous secret agent", she was one of ten Russian spies exchanged for poisoned MI6 agent\u00a0Sergei Skripal\u00a0in July 2010.<\/p>\n She was among a group of spooks who tried to blend into American society in an apparent bid to get close to power brokers and learn secrets.<\/p>\n Chapman taunted the West by appearing on the cover of Russian Maxim is a secret agent in lingerie, armed with a gun, just months after her release.<\/p>\n Born in Volograd, Anna's links to the West began aged 19 during her time as an economics student at Moscow University.<\/p>\n Chapman, who was born Anna Kushchenko but retains her married name, travelled to London during her summer holidays.<\/p>\n It was then when she met public schoolboy Alex Chapman, who she married in 2002, at an underground rave party in London's Docklands.<\/p>\n Speaking to the Daily Telegraph in 2010 – four years after their divorce – Alex dubbed the meet as love as first sight.<\/p>\n Alex Chapman was just 36 when he died two years ago\u00a0and was last listed as living in Bournemouth, Dorset, it has been reported.<\/p>\n Aside from being somewhat of an Instagram celebrity (she has more than 100,000 followers), Chapman is now largely a TV presenter and model.<\/p>\n On her social media post, flooded with sultry snaps, she says she works as a host for REN TV, one of the largest privately funded stations in Russia.<\/p>\n She is reported to have given birth to her first child – a son – at a private Moscow clinic in April 2016 but would not reveal the father's identity.<\/p>\n Anna was once ordered by the Kremlin to seduce whistle-blower Edward Snowden as part of a ruse to keep him in Moscow following his high-profile defection.<\/p>\n During an interview for the Bond girl-esque issue of Maxim, Chapman hinted her secret weapon was her ability to seduce the opposite sex.<\/p>\n Asked whether Russians, Brits or Americans are easiest to seduce, she replied: "Seduction, like love and friendship, are the same everywhere."<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2018-premier-leagues-broadcast-deal-426607226.jpg\")
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